"All glory to our gracious Lord" is a metrical paraphrase of Psalm 118 written by Charles Wesley in twenty-two six-line stanzas. It was first published in John and Charles Wesley's Psalms and Hymns in 1743. The complete original text was later reprinted in volume eight of The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868–1872).
Although written in the early years of the Methodist movement, the paraphrase was not added to the official Wesleyan Hymn Book until the revised edition of 1875. In that collection, two selections from the poem were arranged into a single two-part hymn (No. 616). The first part comprised stanzas one, three, ten, eleven, twelve, and fifteen. The second part, beginning with the line "Jesus is lifted up on high," drew upon stanzas seventeen through twenty-two.
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